TEST BANK For; SELL, 7th Edition by Ingram, LaForge Chapters 1 – 10 All Complete

TEST BANK For; SELL, 7th Edition by Ingram,
LaForge Chapters 1 – 10 All Complete




TEST BANK


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,TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Overview of Personal Selling.

2. Building Trust and Sales Ethics.

3. Understanding Buyers.

4. Communication Skills.

5. Strategic Prospecting and Preparing for Sales Dialogue.

6. Planning Sales Dialogues and Presentations.

7. Sales Dialogue: Creating and Communicating Value.

8. Addressing Concerns and Earning Commitment.

9. Expanding Customer Relationships.

10. Adding Value: Self-Leadership and Teamwork.


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Answers at the end of each chapter
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
1. All order-getters are also pioneers and all pioneers are also order-getters.
a. True
b. False

2. The three phases of the sales process are initiating, developing, and enhancing customer relationships.
a. True
b. False

3. As a salesperson at Solari, Michi is expected to identify customers but is not responsible for generating revenue.
a. True
b. False

4. Order-takers are not too involved in creative selling.
a. True
b. False

5. In the business-to-business sector, buyers are increasingly sharing their opinions, identifying problems, and asking for
vendor recommendations via Twitter and LinkedIn.
a. True
b. False

6. As salespeople serve their customers, they simultaneously serve their employers and society.
a. True
b. False

7. The independence of action traditionally enjoyed by salespeople is frequently a byproduct of decentralized sales operations
in which salespeople live and work away from headquarters.
a. True
b. False

8. Unlike need satisfaction selling, stimulus response selling focuses on customers rather than on salespeople.
a. True
b. False

9. In a fluctuating economy, salespeople make invaluable contributions by assisting in recovery cycles and by helping to
sustain periods of relative prosperity.
a. True
b. False

10. Consumers who are likely to be early adopters of an innovation often rely on salespeople as a tertiary source of information.
a. True
b. False




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11. Salespeople are concerned only with sales revenue and not with overall profitability.
a. True
b. False

12. In recent years, marketing and sales personnel have been in strong demand for upper management positions.
a. True
b. False

13. In the problem-solving approach to selling, competitors' offerings are never included as alternatives in a customer's
purchase decision.
a. True
b. False

14. Sales does not meet the criterion of making a significant contribution to society.
a. True
b. False

15. Salespeople are concerned with profitability in bottom-line terms, whereas accountants and financial staff are responsible
for achieving a healthy "top line" on the profit and loss statement.
a. True
b. False

16. Personal selling and sales promotion are both forms of marketing communications.
a. True
b. False

17. Customers do not expect salespeople to be knowledgeable about market opportunities and relevant business trends
that may affect a customer's business.
a. True
b. False

18. Customers who appreciate the need satisfaction selling method are often willing to spend considerable time in preliminary
meetings to define needs prior to a sales presentation or written sales proposal.
a. True
b. False

19. While acting as agents of innovation, salespeople invariably encounter openness to and acceptance of change from
consumers in the latter stages of the diffusion process.
a. True
b. False

20. Two types of new-business salespeople are order-takers and order-getters.
a. True
b. False




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